Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Boy you said it Greg, these 2 guys snowball on the backs of each other, one getting more and more hysterical than the other, in virtually every single posting.  

What really floored me was when Forrest said "Trump has ignored the crisis for months".  

Well hot damn is right!  It hasn't even BEEN a crisis for months yet, so how in hell could he have ignored it for months.

He was the first to shut off travel from China to the USA 7 weeks ago.

Of course why let the facts get in the way when you can lie and exaggerate instead.  LOL

And Forrest Jr. proves over and over that he's stuck on death rate percentages from a month prior.

It apparently doesn't matter to him that since more and more people are testing positive without succumbing to the virus, that makes the death rate % go down.  

He and Forrest Senior have never been much for mathematical accuracy though.    

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Jim, around here all the restaurants are take out only. All Masses and Lenten activities are canceled. Grocery stores (with erratic supplies of milk, half & half, bread and frozen vegetables) and gas stations are open. With my Kroger card($.10/gallon) discount, I can get gasoline for about $1.81/gallon. All my square dance activities have been canceled.  

I'm scheduled to attend an outdoor(indoor, if raining) wedding on April 4th. An attendance of 250 is expected. I'm curious to see how that turns out.

Basically, I'm just trying to keep things as normal as possible under somewhat surreal circumstances. Overall, I'd say that I'm not particularly worried about things; just patiently waiting for all this to run its course. Other than having to deal with minor inconveniences, the matter is not at the forefront of my mind.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Both - lots of test kits in the city.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/world/coronavirus-news.html#link-178fa276


Rand Paul tested positive today, no symptoms at all, so far.

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

This needed to be in place 6 weeks ago. It isn't because it is "a hoax", or "15 cases now going to zero soon", or.........

Originally Posted by James Brown

We'll know sooner than that.  Worldometer is now showing 5429 new cases in New York, which is a lot and double what the rest of the country is reporting, but not 12k.  Disappointing that they had it wrong for a few hours.

Hopefully we'll know in two-three weeks whether the social distancing and closures are having a positive affect or not.  We know that we will always underestimate the number of cases by a lot as we count positive test results, since we only test the very sick, the rich, and the famous.  And have not done a decent job of testing the very sick so far.  2.  We and other free countries should be able to reliably report the number of deaths.  So, the death graphs are going to be very informative about the effects of social distancing etc, but lagging by at least several weeks.

Jim